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For Immediate Release
September 28 , 2007
pianist, latin american music expert to play nebraska wesleyan's bosendorfer recital
LINCOLN, Neb. —Piano soloist Susanne Skyrm, an expert in modern and early piano, will perform Sunday, October 14 at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s annual “Bravo! Bosendorfer” piano concert.
The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in O’Donnell Auditorium, 50th Street and Huntington Ave. in Lincoln. The concert series features Wesleyan’s Viennese piano, the Bosendorfer Imperial grand, the largest grand piano made by Bosendorfer and the only one of its size in Nebraska.
Skyrm is a studio piano, class piano, and piano literature instructor at the University of South Dakota. She specializes in both modern and early piano and combines performing with research interests in Spanish and Latin American keyboard music. Her interest in Spanish keyboard music has taken her to the Iberian Peninsula, and she is a frequent presenter at the Diego Fernandez International Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music.
As a period instrument specialist, Skyrm has performed on original pianos in Belgium, Scotland, England, Spain, and throughout the United States. Her performances have been broadcast nationally on public radio.
Skyrm was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, which allowed her the opportunity to research sizeable holdings of the music library at the University of Texas at Austin. As part of her project, Skyrm traced the influence of native and folk elements on the art music of Latin America. Music from this project will be featured in the Bravo! Bosendorfer piano concert.
The pianist was honored last spring as the University of South Dakota’s first recipient of the Fine Arts Biennial Distinguished Professor Award.
Admission for the concert is $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. For more information, call 402.465.2268. |
